Description

ORIGINAL EDITION illustrated with 30 large original photographic prints by Henriette Grindat.
UNIQUE EDITION OF 120 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED by René Char and Henriette Grindat.

After the Liberation, Albert Camus and René Char discussed in their correspondence the project of a "book on the Vaucluse", and completed the manuscript in the early 1950s after Char had contributed his opening poem, "luttant et respirant". Camus's poetic fragments dialogue with the photographs of Henriette Grindat (1923-1986), a Swiss artist who came to meet Char at L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the summer of 1950, with the aim of giving a face to "this hinterland which is like our own, invisible to others" (Char). But the book did not appear during Camus's lifetime, and the writer's tragic death revived the project, with Francine Camus entrusting the manuscript of The sun's posterity to René Char, who asked Edwin Engelberts to try to have it published. Only 120 deluxe copies were published in 1965, and only 4,000 copies went into print in 1977.

A fine copy in its original box.